"(Missouri). They are reading ""Great Expectations"" and some think the novel is too long. Miriam explains to them how the book originally came out in installments. She then does a short performance of Miss Havisham talking about love. Dickens had a chance encounter with Chief Pitchlynn of the Choctaw tribe and discussed American Indian conditions with him. Miriam meets two American Indians, from separate nations, Dana Klar and Noel Frazer, both from the Buder Center for American Indian Studies. They meet at an Indian burial mound and compare conditions now and what they were like in 1842. Dickens wanted to"
"only the first indication of the naivety of his outlook. However, he also believes that the satire against this man is tempered with compassion. Smith also draws attention to the fact that certain characters in the novel 'develop a pattern from Dickens's earlier novels, whilst pointing the way to future works'. One such character is Little Paul who is a direct descendant of Little Nell. Another is James Carker, the ever-smiling manager of Dombey and Son. Smith notes there are strong similarities between him and the likes of Jaggers in ""Great Expectations"" and, even more so, the evil barrister, Mr"
"him with a target weight. If Dick strays from this goal, then his wife's right little finger will be cut off. Morrison exercises and keeps in shape, and gives the business card to a barfly, echoing the start of the story. The story ends when Dick and Cindy meet the McCanns, and Dick realizes Jimmy's wife is missing her little finger. Quitters, Inc. ""Quitters, Inc."" is a short story by Stephen King, first published in King's 1978 collection ""Night Shift"". Richard ""Dick"" Morrison, a middle-aged smoker, is at John F. Kennedy International Airport when he runs into Jimmy McCann, his"
"the gerbil's size, then he defeats Professor Poopypants and everyone's names revert. The boys use the machines to bring the school and Captain Underpants back to normal size. Captain Underpants is soaked with water, turning him back into Mr. Krupp. Professor Poopypants is hauled off to jail and from George and Harold, he changes his name so that no one will make fun of it anymore. Unfortunately, he changes his name to his grandfather's, Tippy Tinkletrousers, that which makes the prisoners ridicule him even more. Authors: Dav Pilkey and Captain Underpants. The book that followed this was The Wicked Wedgie"
"his servants, Tara, an Irish immigrant who is literate and able to provide advice. While writing his book, Charles is greeted by the arrival of his father, John Dickens (Jonathan Pryce), whom Charles views as immature and fiscally irresponsible. Charles' relationship with his family is increasingly strained as he struggles to finish the book in time, as he is unable to resolve Scrooge's story. Hearing that Charles intends to let Tiny Tim die, Tara suggests a resolution for Scrooge by having him save Tiny Tim instead. Charles rejects her help, and soon sends her away from his house in a"
"fancy"". Dickens's biographer Claire Tomalin regards him as the greatest creator of character in English fiction after Shakespeare. Dickensian characters are amongst the most memorable in English literature, especially so because of their typically whimsical names. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim, Jacob Marley, Bob Cratchit, Oliver Twist, The Artful Dodger, Fagin, Bill Sikes, Pip, Miss Havisham, Sydney Carton, Charles Darnay, David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Daniel Quilp, Samuel Pickwick, Wackford Squeers, and Uriah Heep are so well known as to be part and parcel of British culture, and in some cases have passed into ordinary language: a"
"the Mousethief, Dinny, and Trimp befriend an orphaned woodlander squirrel named Chugger, the bird Krar Woodwatcher, as well as two brother otters, Folgrim (who is very close to becoming feral, having filed his teeth to points, and even eating vermin after he kills them) and his older brother Tungro. When they reach the northlands, Martin meets his father's friends: the old mouse, Vurg, and Beauclair Fethringsol Cosfortingham, an exuberant old hare. They show him a book titled ""In the Wake of the Red Ship"", an account of Luke's life. The plot then flashes back to Martin's birth to Luke and"
"Dickens by his friend, Angela Burdett-Coutts. In an 1844 stage version of ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" authorised by Dickens at the Queen's Theatre Sarah Gamp was played by the actor and comedian Thomas Manders. Mrs. Gamp appears in ""Dickensian"", at first nursing Little Nell at the Old Curiosity Shop and later tending to Silas Wegg (from ""Our Mutual Friend""), played by Pauline Collins. Sarah Gamp Sarah or Sairey Gamp is a nurse in the novel ""Martin Chuzzlewit"" by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844. Mrs. Gamp, as she is usually referred to, is dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk. She"
"and remunerative reading tours. His domestic life had, however, disintegrated in the late 1850s and he had separated from his wife, Catherine Dickens, and was having a secret affair with the much younger Ellen Ternan. The introduction of the 1984 Penguin English Library edition suggests that the reluctance with which Ellen Ternan became his mistress is reflected in the icy teasing of Estella in ""Great Expectations"". In his ""Book of Memoranda"", begun in 1855, Dickens wrote names for possible characters: Magwitch, Provis, Clarriker, Compey, Pumblechook, Orlick, Gargery, Wopsle, Skiffins, some of which became familiar in ""Great Expectations"". There is also"
"James Harmer James Harmer (1777–1853) was an English solicitor, involved in the investigation of miscarriages of justice, radical politics, and local government in London, where he served as an alderman. He served as a model for Jaggers, the Charles Dickens character from ""Great Expectations"". James Harmer appears in a series of historical financial crime novels written by Susan Grossey: ""Fatal Forgery"", ""The Man in the Canary Waistcoat"", and ""Worm in the Blossom"". Harmer was the son of a Spitalfields weaver, and was left an orphan at age 10. He was articled to an attorney in 1792, but left his office"
"and appearing in ""The Pickwick Papers"", ""Martin Chuzzlewit"", ""Little Dorrit"", and ""The Uncommercial Traveller"". Amelia Havisham's first dog here is Jip, the spaniel that is Dora Spenlow's lapdog in ""David Copperfield"". Constable Duff, who appears briefly in a few episodes, is a character from ""Oliver Twist"". Episode 1: Jaggers mentions his clerk ""Mr Heep""—Uriah Heep from ""David Copperfield""; Silas Wegg, the tapman at The Three Cripples (a tavern in ""Oliver Twist""), gives barmaid Daisy a tray of drinks to take back to ""Mr Pickwick and his guests"" (""The Pickwick Papers"").I At the New Years reception hosted by the Haversham siblings,"
"premonition of the signalman's own death. Another story features, in a thinly disguised form, the town of Rugby in Warwickshire and the town's railway station. One of the stories satirizes the refreshment rooms where Dickens was humiliated by the proprietess when he was ordering a cup of coffee. She refused to pass him the sugar bowl until she had been paid, clearly not recognising the celebrity author. Mugby Junction ""Mugby Junction"" is a set of short stories written in 1866 by Charles Dickens and collaborators Charles Collins, Amelia B. Edwards, Andrew Halliday, and Hesba Stretton. It was first published in"
"the piano, and Bing and Bowie chat about their musical tastes before singing a duet of ""Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy"". Kathyrn chats with Mrs. Bridges in the kitchen as the children continue looking for written proof of their relation to Sir Percy. Meanwhile, in the library, Bing is surprised to encounter the house's former owner, Charles Dickens, played by Ron Moody. They are soon joined by Twiggy, who comments on Dickens' wide array of memorable characters and several of Dickens' heroes and villains including Ebenezer Scrooge and Tiny Tim (from ""A Christmas Carol""), Fagin and The Artful Dodger (from"
"characters such as Gaffer Hexam and Betty Higden. While novelist Henry James dismissed the minor characters Jenny Wren, Mr Wegg, and Mr Venus as ""pathetic characters."" in his 1865 review of the novel, Gregg Hecimovich in 1989 refers to them as ""important riddlers and riddlees."" Hecimovich suggests that, ""Through the example of his minor characters, Dickens directs his readers to seek, with the chief characters, order and structure out of the apparent disjunctive 'rubbish' in the novel, to analyze and articulate what ails a fallen London... Only then can the reader, mimicking the action of certain characters, create something 'harmonious'"
"but they end up at the Cratchits' home in the present, where we meet Mrs. Cratchit and her eternally hungry yet eternally sunny children, all 21 of them. The majority of the 21 live in ""a bunch in the root cellar."" Most of the characters retain their original Dickensian qualities. Ebenezer Scrooge is old and miserly. Bob Cratchit is the gentle family man who is the primary target of Scrooge's cheapness. Tiny Tim is crippled and heart-rending. Equally heart-rending is Little Nell from Dickens' ""The Old Curiosity Shop"", who appears as one of the Cratchit children. In typical Durang style,"
"later Butler, his older daughter Effie Deans, later Lady Staunton, his younger daughter The Whistler, Effie's son David Deans, Jeanie's eldest child The Laird of Dumbiedikes, Jeanie's admirer Reuben Butler, a schoolmaster Bartoline Saddletree, a harness-maker Mrs Saddletree, his wife Rev. Robert Staunton, Rector of Willingham George Staunton, alias Robertson, his son Andrew Wilson, a smuggler, his companion Meg Murdockson, George's nurse Madge Wildfire, her crazy daughter Gideon Sharpitlaw, procurator fiscal Jim Ratcliffe, a criminal turned jailor Baillie Middleburgh, a magistrate Mr Fairbrother, counsel for Effie Mrs Bickerton, landlady of the 'Seven Stars' at York Mrs Glass, a tobacconist MacCallum"
"to Charles Dickens' Mr. Pickwick and company. In chapter four of ""Cordelia Underwood"", Cordelia finds a copy of ""The Pickwick Papers"" in her uncle's trunk. Author Van Reid says that the names of the characters Ephram, Eagleton and Thump were chosen to evoke the sound of a heavy object falling downstairs. The name Tobias was consciously borrowed from the character of Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne’s ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman""; Walton from Izaak Walton, author of ""The Compleat Angler"". Ephram, Eagleton, and Thump adhere to different political parties, go to separate churches, subscribe to different newspapers,"
"but he left when he saw she was asleep. The police then arrest Knighton and the case is closed. The novel's plot is based on the 1923 Poirot short story ""The Plymouth Express"" (later collected in book form in the US in 1951 in ""The Under Dog and Other Stories"" and in the UK in 1974 in ""Poirot's Early Cases""). This novel features the first description of the fictional village of St. Mary Mead, which would later be the home of Christie's detective Miss Marple. It also features the first appearance of the minor recurring character, Mr Goby, who would"
"Charles Dickens novels are littered with stock-market speculations, villains, swindlers and fictional speculators. Little Dorrit (1857) The financial house of Mr Merdle; Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) 'Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan and Life Company, modeled loosely on the South Sea Bubble,- is in essence a classic Ponzi scheme; Nicholas Nickleby (1839) Ralph Nickleby's great Joint Stock Company, United Metropolitan Improved Hot Muffin and Crumpet Baking and Punctual Delivery Company; David Copperfield (1850) the false accounting by the sycophant Uriah Heep, clerk to lawyer Mr Wickfield; South Sea Company The South Sea Company (officially The Governor and Company of the merchants of Great Britain,"
"their letters to outlying towns. He becomes a trusted member working with prominent Whig leaders John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere and Doctor Joseph Warren. Rab is also a member and drills with the Minute Men at Lexington, but he frets at not having a modern musket with which to fight. Johnny, unable to fight because of his hand, obtains a musket for Rab by helping a British soldier to desert. However, he is badly disturbed when the deserter is caught and executed. The novel reaches its climax in April 1775 with the outbreak and immediate aftermath of the Battles"
"lot. Among them is their consensus leader, a middle-aged Irishman named Driscoll (""Drisk"") (Thomas Mitchell), a young Swedish ex-farmer Ole Olsen (John Wayne), a spiteful steward nicknamed Cocky (Barry Fitzgerald), a brooding Lord Jim-like Englishman Smitty (Ian Hunter), and a burly, thoroughly dependable bruiser Davis (Joseph Sawyer), among others. The film opens on a sultry night in a port in the West Indies where the crew have been confined to their ship by order of the captain, yet they yearn as ever for an opportunity to drink and have fun with the ladies. Drisk has arranged to import a boat-load"
"befriends and has adventures with numerous influential eighteenth-century figures, including Lawrence Washington, George Hadley, Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, Henry Fielding and, especially, Benjamin Franklin during Franklin's years in England. Towards the end of his life, Fezziwig returns to his childhood home, accompanied by his apprentice Ebenezer Scrooge. The novel was originally published by favoritetrainers.com books as ""The Autobiography of Fezziwig"", but re-released in 2015. Mr. Fezziwig Mr. Fezziwig is a character from the novel ""A Christmas Carol"" created by Charles Dickens to provide contrast with Ebenezer Scrooge's attitudes towards business ethics. Scrooge, who apprenticed under Fezziwig, is the very antithesis"
"Thin Clergyman and the Fat Clergyman, respectively. The Arlesdale Railway was also the focus point in ""Jock the New Engine"", with an incident that was inspired by an accident that happened on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, when ""Perkins"" crashed in the back of the shed, and with cameos in other books. The fictional railway's locomotives are each based on Ravenglass locomotives: ""Bert"", ""Rex"", ""Mike"" and ""Jock"" are the steam locomotives ""River Irt"", ""River Esk"", ""River Mite"" and ""Northern Rock"", while the Sudrian diesels ""Frank"", ""Sigrid of Arlesdale"" and ""Blister"" 1 & 2 are the Cumbrians ""Perkins"", ""Shelagh of Eskdale"""
"to America, where he finds at last a situation that requires the full extent of his innate cheerfulness of disposition. Martin buys a piece of land in a settlement called ""Eden""—which, if not actually underwater, is at least in the midst of a malarial swamp. Mark nurses him through his illness, and they eventually return to England. Montague Tigg / Tigg Montague is a down-on-his-luck rogue at the beginning of the story, and a hanger-on to distant Chuzzlewit kin Chevy Slyme. Later, he starts a thriving, sleazy insurance business with no money at all and lures Jonas into the business."
"Bergen, New Jersey., Today, the instersection is called ""Six Corners"", where a laundromat and cafe share the same name, in the residential and commercial neighborhood called New Durham. By the time the inn was erected, the name ""Three Pigeons"" had been used repeatedly in plays as the backdrop for scenes, for instance in ""She Stoops to Conquer"" (1773), Shakespeare's ""The Merry Wives of Windsor"" (1602) and Ben Jonson's ""The Alchemist"" (1610). Later literary scenes involving a ""Three Pigeons"" appear in ""Creatures of Impulse"" (1870) and Charles Dickens' ""Our Mutual Friend"" (1864–65), as well as in actual inns, such as the"
"all of Trollope's novels, this one contains many sub-plots and numerous minor characters. Plantagenet Palliser (of the ""Palliser"" series) makes his first appearance, as he contemplates a dalliance with Griselda Grantly, the now-married Lady Dumbello, daughter of the Archdeacon introduced earlier in the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Small House at Allington The Small House at Allington is the fifth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the ""Chronicles of Barsetshire"". It first appeared as a serial in the 1862 July to December edition of the Cornhill Magazine, and ended its run in the July to December edition of the following"
"drummer in his marching band at Pennwood prep in fictional small town, Pennwood, Pennsylvania, swept away by then-fictitious Hurricane Hannah on his way to the Labor Day parade. He lands on the shore of Winkie Lake, where he meets Yankee, the first American dog in space, a bull terrier delighted at his newfound ability to talk. The nearest town is Wackajammy, in the northeastern part of the Winkie Country, which is the breadbasket of the West. The King, Jackalack, believes that Tompy and Yankee are there to fulfill a prophecy to rescue their princess, his aunt, Doffi, who instructs all"
"would love the novel. One modern scholar considers the story a ""puerile fantasy"" about class assimilation. The plot and theme were repeated in Alger's subsequent novels and became the subject of parodies and satires. ""Ragged Dick"" and Alger's ""Silas Snobden's Office Boy"" inspired the musical comedy ""Shine!"" in 1982. The text of ""Ragged Dick"" is based on the 1868 first book edition, annotated for student readers. ""Contexts"" begins by looking at Ragged Dick through the lenses of 1860s New York and Alger's own life there. Ragged Dick is a fourteen-year-old bootblack – he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the"
"Mingeborough, New York, meet up at Grover's house one Saturday afternoon to discuss activities for the weekend. Their ""Inner Junta"" talk about planning elaborate practical jokes, collecting milk money from schoolkids. The meeting adjourns and the five of them depart, through a lush section of forest they dub King Yjro's Woods, then down a stream aboard a refurbished flat-bottomed boat they christened the ""S.S. Leak"", to an abandoned manor known as ""The Big House"". Here they solidify plans to infiltrate and disrupt a PTA meeting with smoke bombs and sodium/water explosions when Hogan, an 8-year-old AA member, gets a call"
"Jack Maggs Jack Maggs (1997) is a novel by Australian novelist Peter Carey. Set in 19th century London, ""Jack Maggs"" is a reworking of the Charles Dickens novel ""Great Expectations"". The story centres around Jack Maggs (the equivalent of Magwitch) and his quest to meet his 'son' Henry Phipps (the equivalent of Pip), who has mysteriously disappeared, having closed up his house and dismissed his household. Maggs becomes involved as a servant in the household of Phipps's neighbour, Percy Buckle, as he attempts to wait out Phipps or find him in the streets of London. He eventually cuts a deal"
"them, and they made a ""target practice"" for them at Lexington. James Otis, Jr. - A lawyer and architect of the ideals of the American Revolution; his career was shortened by bouts of insanity caused after being beaten about the head by a British soldier. In the novel, Otis inspires the Whig leaders to fight for the rights of all people, not just Americans. He warns that some will give their lives, foreshadowing the death of Rab. Governor Thomas Hutchinson - The governor of Massachusetts prior to the occupation by the British army. Thomas Gage - British General and military"
"is introduced to the larger world of pre-revolutionary Boston politics by his new friend and mentor Rab Silsbee, an older boy working for the paper. Johnny learns to ride and care for Goblin, a beautiful but skittish horse used to make deliveries and moves in with Rab in the attic of the newspaper's shop. As months go by and tension between Whigs and Tories rises, Johnny becomes a dedicated Whig himself. Johnny matures and re-evaluates many personal relationships, including that with Cilla, who becomes a trusted friend and fellow Whig. Johnny and Rab take part in the Boston Tea Party,"
"the story strongly mirrors the opening chapters of the original Holmes novel, ""A Study in Scarlet"", from which it takes its name. Whilst almost none of the characters are explicitly identified in the text, it is strongly hinted by the twist ending that 'Rache' is Holmes, and the detective and his veteran friend are Professor James Moriarty and Colonel Sebastian Moran (who, in Doyle's original stories, are the criminal mastermind enemy of Sherlock Holmes and his right-hand man and accomplice respectively). The 'Limping Doctor', meanwhile, is identified explicitly as ""John (or perhaps James) Watson"". In particular: Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes"